Brad-setter.



W, H. FITZGERALD & H. J. PARSONS. BRAD SETTER'.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 19, 1913.

1 ,1 85, 1 90, I Patented May 30, 1916.

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WILLIAM H. FITZGERALD AND HUBERT J. PARSONS, OF THOIVILASTON,CONNECTICUT.

IBRAD-SET'IER.

. Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented we, so, 1916.

Application filed June 19, 1913. Serial No. 774,585.

a novel brad setter which shall be simple and inexpensive as regards itsconstruction; durable, eflicient and reliable in practical service;which shall have a contact-surface at its bottom, and be capable ofreleasably supporting at its tip-portion, with the bottom face thereofin registry lengthwise, or approximately. so, with the plane of saidcontact-surface, a brad, or analogous fastening element; and which shallpossess certain well-defined advantages over prior analogousconstructions.

The invention consists in the combinations, details and parts whereby,together with the novel disposition and relative arrangement of saidparts, the attainment of the foregoing object is rendered practicable,all of which will be hereinafter more specifically referred to and setforth in the appended claim.

The' invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings,wherein similar reference characters denote like parts throughout therespective views, as to which:

Figure 1 is a top plan view of a brad setter embodying our saidimprovements. Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof, the tip-portion beingshown partially in central, vertical, longitudinal section. Fig. 3 is aperspective View of same, showing more clearly the contact-surface ofthe device, and the manner in which a brad or the like is releasablyheld relatively to .said contact-surface. Fig. 4: is a front-endelevation of the device.

In carrying out our invention, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawing, we make use of an elongated body 2, formed from any suitablematerial, preferably metal stock of any appropriate cross-sectionalcontour, and provided at its bottom with a flat contact-surface 2, saidcontact-surface being here shown as coextensive lengthwise with the bodyaforenamed, though the same may, in practice, be otherwise arranged.

There is formed in the body 2, or more specifically its tip-portion 2",at the front end thereof, a fastener-receiving socket 3, said socketbeing measurably'intersected by the plane of the contact-surface 2, asclearly shown in the drawing.

We contemplate providing the body 2 with a finger-piece 3, which may beconveniently accomplished by reducing said body, as at the point 3", toform a tang or shank 4:, for the reception of the finger-pieceaforenamed, said finger-piece being adjusted in place on said tang orshank, under a force i or pressure sufficient to causethe same toeffectively-retain its grasp thereon, or duly l fastened in position, bymeans of any common and well-known fastening element or elements, whenthus adjusted.

More or less of the exterior surface of the body 2, as between itstip-portion 2 and a point at or adjacent to its tang or shank 4, thecontact-surface aforenamed excepted, may be suitably milled or otherwiseroughened, to the end that the device may be more effectivelygrasped,and hence controlled, by the user. 1

WVhere the fastening element, as thebrad 4, to be set or urged in place,by means of our im oroved brad setter, is tapered lengthwise rom itsbutt, or a point adjacent thereto, to its pointed or entering end, we

purpose forming the socket 3 in such a mannor that the same shall lie inparallelism with, or axially in relation to, the longitudinal axis ofthe body 2, while the plane of the contact-surface 2, still measurablyintersecting said socket, shall lie at an angle or inclination to saidlongitudinal axis of the body 2, all as clearly illustrated in theaccompanying drawings. In other words, the contact-surface 2 graduallytapers or converges from the shank-end of the body 2, toward thelongitudinal axis thereof, and measurably intersects the socket 3, atthe front end of said body, or more specifically at the front'end of itstip-portion 2".

It will be observed, in this connection, that the finger-piece 3 issegmental in general form, the lower portion thereof being is in placeon the tang or shank 4, shall register flush, or approximately so, withthe plane of the contact-surface 2'.

While our improved device, asherein defined, may be advantageouslyavailed of quite generally for the setting of brads, or fastenerssimilar thereto in form, the same is more particularly int-ended for thesetting of brads, 01' like fasteners, in the several rails of awindow-sash, or the back-bead of a so-called picture frame, where theobject to be held in place, as a pane of glass, picture, diploma, or thelike, is fiat, and it being important that little or no play shall existbetween the margins of such object and the brads, or the like, availedof for holding the same in place. In practice, therefore, and as regardsthe purposes for which the device is particularly intended, the userinserts a brad a, or the like, butt foremost into the socket 3, Where itrests unfastened; then places the device as a whole, with said brad orthe like disposed as stated, on, say, and with its contact-surface 2engaging, the pane of glass to be fastened within the sash provided toreceive it, care being exercised to the end that when the device is sopositioned, the pointed end of the brad, or the like, supported thereby,shall be presented in the direction of the adjacent sash-rail. Whereuponthe user, placing a finger of one of his hands against the upstandingface of the finger-piece 3, and grasping the body 2, as along itsroughened surface aforenamed, with one of more of the remaining fingersof his same hand, or opposite hand, thrusts or urges the device as awhole end- Wise forwardly, thereby causing the brad 4, or the like, topenetrate and become firmly inserted within said adjacent sash-rail,with its butt-portion closely overlying the adjacent margin of said paneof glass; it being understood that in this operation, the device is tobe positioned, as above explained, on the glass aforenamed at a pointsuitably removed from the sash-rail aforenamed.

Reversing the above-named endwise movement of the device as a whole willresult in leaving the brad 4, or the like, firmly positioned, as stated,within said sash-rail, and the socket 3 vacant to receive a fresh brad,or the like. I

The use of the device under other, and more or less analogous,conditions will be readily comprehended from the foregoing.

It will be seen that our improved brad setter is well adapted for thepurposes for which it is intended; and further that the same may bemodified to a considerable extent, particularly as regards theemployment or omission of the finger-piece 3, the extent to which thecontact-surface 2 shall intersect the socket 3, the roughening of thebody 2, and other minor details of the gen eral construction, allwithout materially departing from the spirit and principle of ourinvention as expressed in the claim hereto appended.

We claim:

A brad setter consisting of an elongated piece of metal having a flatface provided with a groove therein extending longitudinally from oneend of the piece a distance less than the length of a brad and being ofa diameter sufiicient to closely receive the brad.

WILLIAM H. FITZGERALD. HUBERT J. PARSONS.

Witnesses:

JANE G. BERGIN, F. E. SPERRING.

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Washington, D. G.

